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Letter "U" » usurpation
«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(
President)
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About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
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Keywords:
abridgment,
abridgments,
encroachment,
encroachments,
gradual,
instances,
sudden,
The General,
usurpation,
violent
«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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Keywords:
antisocial,
Body of,
deprive,
desperate,
fundamentally,
inclination,
incurable,
methods,
opposes,
organized society,
subtler,
ten thousand,
usurpation,
Wilder
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(
Novelist,
Philosopher,
Thinker)
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About:
Christianity
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Keywords:
arrogance,
Christian Churches,
hostile,
humility,
in common,
in name,
opposites,
penitence,
rigidity,
submissiveness,
The Christian,
usurpation,
utterly
«I dare, without usurpation, assume the honourable style of a Christian.»